Nov 9, 2006 · The fishbone stitch is an easy hand embroidery stitch that works great for creating filled leaves and petal shapes. You can use the stitch for other applications, too, but the fishbone stitch is most often seen as a filling for leaves. This is because it creates a satin-stitch-like filling, with a natural spine down the center.

Jul 5, 2012 · The woven wheel, also known as the woven spider web stitch, is a great example of a simple stitch that is versatile and beautiful. The woven wheel makes terrific flowers in almost any kind of thread. It’s used widely in ribbon embroidery for making roses, but it works well in surface embroidery using cotton floss, perle cotton, wool (it looks ...

Nov 13, 2006 · The detached chain stitch is a very popular embroidery stitch, because it’s an easy and pretty stitch. It’s perfect for flowers, petals, and leaves, but can be used in lots of different ways. Besides working daisy-type flowers with the detached chain stitch, you can also work the stitch as a ground stitch, to fill in parts of embroidery ...

Aug 27, 2009 · Switch to light blue (159) and stitch two ore more rows of long and short stitch, to fill the main central part of the swash. As you stitch each row, make slight adjustments in direction in order to ease your way aroudn the turn of the swash. See the phot below for stitching direction: The red slashes indicate the turning stitches.

Jan 31, 2025 · Today, we’re going to enjoy a bit of Stitch Fun – musing about a stitch, wondering about its name, and showing you how it’s worked. Stitch Fun! is this series of stitching tutorials here on Needle ‘n Thread. In the series, we explore different embroidery stitches mostly as combinations or composites, used in different ways and offering ...

Jun 28, 2019 · Then, you stitch the line by following your dot pattern that’s left on the fabric. Simple! Pros & Cons. Like any product, there are pros and cons to the stitch templates. The pros are pretty obvious: You can easily and quickly mark a line for embroidery using the templates, ensuring a consistent, even line of stitching that can be further ...

Sep 18, 2024 · The nature of the raised part of the embroidery is basically a super-dee-duper padded stem stitch. You’ll find a very thorough step-by-step photo tutorial for this ultra-raised stem stitch, or Casalguidi stitch, here. If you like the look of Casalguidi, but you don’t want something quite so raised, you might enjoy raised stem stitch instead ...

Jul 8, 2013 · Velvet stitch involves a kind of cross stitch, so we’ll begin the stitch by taking the first part of the stitch from lower left to upper right, in the direction of the arrow indicated in the photo above. And there’s the first part of the stitch – a straight diagonal stitch taken from lower left to upper right. Not too complex so far!

Sep 16, 2014 · To begin stitch #3, bring the needle up at B, which you probably recall is where the first bullion stitch ended. And feel free to share the same hole! The end of stitch #3 will be at E, which is the next dot down the line past the end of stitch #2. You can see that stitch #3 put stitches #1 and #2 in their place. All looks well. And so it ...

Aug 10, 2018 · Chain stitch makes a great filling, too, and would work well on a tree trunk. You can even mix chain stitch in with other stitches (like stem stitch and outline stitch) to add new texture to the tree. To whip chain stitch, the method is exactly the same as that used for whipping backstitch. 6. Fly Stitch